Agaricus campestris L. 1753

Details

Name scientific

Agaricus campestris L. 1753

Preferred name

Agaricus campestris L. 1753

Taxonomy reference

Segedin, B.P.; Pennycook, S.R. 2001: A nomenclatural checklist of agarics, boletes, and related secotioid and gasteromycetous fungi recorded from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 39(2): 285-348.

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Recorded in error

New Zealand

Political Region

Anon

New Zealand records refer to several undescribed similar species.

Nomenclature

Original authors

Authors

Publication place

Linnaeus, C. von 1753: Species Plantarum. 2. 1200 p.

Year published

1753

Publication page

1173

Sanctioning author

Fr.

Sanctioning reference

Fries, E.M. 1821: Systema Mycologicum. 1. Ex Officina Berlingiana.

Sanctioning page(s)

281

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Agaricus campestris L. 1753

Taxonomic rank

species

Canonical form

Agaricus campestris

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Basidiomycota

Class

Agaricomycetes

Order

Agaricales

Family

Agaricaceae

Genus

Agaricus

Species

campestris

Subordinates

Vernacular names

Language of use: English

Synonyms

Psalliota campestris (L.) P. Kumm. 1871

Associations

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Association type

Associated organism

Association source

has host

Agrostis capillaris L.

Arnold, E.H.; Brien, R.M. (1961)

has host

Agrostis capillaris L.

Dingley, J.M. (1969)

has host

Agrostis capillaris L.

Pennycook, S.R. (1989)

Descriptions

Dingley, J.M. 1969: Records of plant diseases in New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Bulletin. 192.

Agaricus campestris L. 1753

Notes

Arnold and Brien (1961) recorded "fairy rings" on greens and fairways of golf courses caused by mycelium of Agaricus campestris smothering grass roots and killing the plants. it is of minor economic importance.

Horak, E. 1971: A contribution towards the revision of the Agaricales (Fungi) from New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(3): 403-462.

Agaricus campestris L. 1753

Notes

Agaricus campestris (Linne) (1,16) = Agaricus campester Fries. Material: COLENSO, New Zealand. Apparently introduced like other coprophilous fungi.

Massee, G.E. 1899: The fungus flora of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 31: 282–349.

Agaricus campestris L. 1753

Description

Pileus globose, then expanding until plano-convex, dry, silky, floccose, or broken up into squamules, whitish, sometimes tinged brown, 6-15 cm. broad; flesh thick at the disc, margin thinner, becoming reddish-brown when cut, as does also that of the stem; gills free, but close to the stem, pale-pink, then flesh-colour, finally blackish-brown, inclined to deliquesce at maturity; spores 7-9 x 6 µ; stem -12 cm. long, stout, subcylindrical, white, stuffed; ring median on the stem, persistent, more or less torn.

Distribution

Northern Island, New Zealand. A cosmopolitan species.

Habitat

In pastures, &c.

Notes

Edible. Known as the " mushroom " in Britain. (See note under A. arvensis).